Chief Coucillor Ross
talks development
Cameron Orr
In the face of immense development, unemployment and poverty is
not an issue to ignore, according to
Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross.
Ross spoke after posting a statement to Facebook, speaking to issues
relating to poverty and economic development.
If poverty is the only lifestyle
you know, it is very difficult to know
there is a way out,” he wrote.
He said he had published his
statement more as a conversation
starter and to seek feedback as he
solidifies his positions.
“I’m trying to bring us right
back to basics in terms of what we’re
trying to achieve over here, and I just
didn’t want anyone to lose sight of
the fact that, amongst all these high
level, important issues — we have
to address emissions, we have to address fracking, we have to address
shipping issues — but on that same
level we should also be considering
the impact it has on my people,” he
said.
“We’ve been dealing with a 60
per cent unemployment level for
God knows how long.
When you’re living in poverty,
no one really appreciates a high level
political speech about employment
but does nothing about it.
It’s that person that’s stuck on
welfare that really wants an opportunity to get a job I can’t lose sight of.
I’ve got to do something.”

He added, “I’ve also got to address that person who needs a future.”
He said he’s aware that the issues he talks about and that the Haisla are working on under economic
development, are issues that impact
non-Haisla people as well, from here
to Alberta.
But as the elected Chief Councillor his mandate is of course to
take care of Haisla people.
“It’s tough to address unemployment, it’s tough to address poverty
under federal programming dollars.
It’s impossible,” he added.
“If you really want to address it
to affect that average person, you’ve
got to look at economic development.”
He said he speaks broadly of
economic development, and covers
areas such as forestry, mining and
natural gas.
Given a recent visit by David
Black, speaking to his oil refinery
proposal, we asked Ross where that
proposal sat among everything being
considered by the Haisla.
“I have no idea what my people
would think about that.
I know what they think about
crude oil, but a refinery brings up a
whole different level of issues and
questions that need to be addressed
and we haven’t even begun to think
about those issues and questions
because our plate is pretty full,” he
said.

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A member of the Kitimat Royal Canadian Mounted Police pays respects after placing
a wreath on the cenotaph. More photos on page 8. Photo by Sarah Campbell

Finding help for affordable housing in Kitimat
Cameron Orr
As the community continues
to work on housing solutions, the
existing Kitimat Housing Committee is seeking keen volunteers
to establish a non-profit housing
society.
Margaret Warcup, who chairs
the housing committee, said that
such a society needs to be established for some potential projects
waiting in the wings.
“We do know that we’ve been
told there is interest out there from
a couple of developers to work
with a board that way but we’ve

“We needed the
scope of subsidized
housing all the
way up.”
got to get it going, we’ve got to
find the people that are interested
in housing,” she said.
The society, as she envisions
it, would be a board of people
who are willing to advocate for
housing projects and dollars from

other levels of government.
“It is a working board, it
needs to initially be a working
board that’s willing to advocate,
willing to talk to the minister of
housing, that kind of stuff,” she
said.
The challenge she said is
finding people to put on to this
proposed society, but she’s hopeful there are people out there.
There have been community
information sessions hosted by
the Kitimat Housing Resource
Project with Anne Moyls and
they’ve found some people from

that process.
Kitimat’s housing needs are
all-encompassing and no single
style of housing is in much abundance in the community.
“When we did the housing
needs study it showed that we
didn’t just need one type of housing, we needed housing that you
and I can afford to live in, somebody that can live in a bigger
house, somebody that has 20 kids,
whatever,” said Warcup.
“We needed the scope of subsidized housing all the way up.”
She added, “We also know

we don’t have the stats in terms of
populations like other communities would have, but we also know
every day it’s changing, everyday
we’re getting different housing
problems coming up.”
People who are interested in
helping develop new housing in
the community are encouraged to
call those involved with the Housing Committee.
Call Trish at the Chamber
of Commerce at 250-632-6294,
Warcup at the Child Development
Centre at 250-632-3144, ex. 202,
or Anne Moyls at 250-639-6065.

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Extreme weather response plan approved

police beat

Kitimat Council
has approved $2,600 as
requested by the Kitimat Housing Committee, to hire a consultant
that will develop an
extreme weather response plan.
As winter approached, and the town
has had at least one
brush with snowfall so
far this season, Kitimat
has no beds for homeless people.
The housing committee, according to a
staff report to council,
fears that industrial activity in town and rising housing costs will
force more people onto

The following is a review of a few incidents, which
the Sentinel has edited for space. Submitted by S/
Sgt. P.C. Harrison, NCO i/c Kitimat RCMP
Kitimat Detach- on information gathment responded to 84 ered from friends. The
calls for service during resulting investigation
the period of Novem- indicates that the comber 11 to 18.
plainant may have lost
Nov 4 - A report his wallet sometime
received from a com- prior to the assault.
Nov. 6 - Member
plainant that she had
observed a red Maza- received a report from
da pickup truck slide Kitimat General Hosinto a ditch near On- pital Emergency nurse
ion Lake. Member at- of a suspicious-looking
tended and observed person in emergency
the truck in the ditch. ward. Member was
The owner of the ve- aware that a male was
hicle was out of the transported there earvehicle and uninjured lier regarding a head
and showed no signs injury sustained while
of impairment or alco- walking from the Old
hol consumption. The Keg pub. Members atvehicle was equipped tended the hospital and
with winter tires.
spoke with the male
Nov. 5 - A com- who was waiting outplainant attended the side hospital for a taxi.
Kitimat RCMP front Members were advised
desk to report that a that he was treated and
male he knows had as- received 4 stitches.
saulted him and stolen It was the member’s
his wallet in front of opinion that the male
the Ol’ Keg Pub. The was slightly intoxicomplainant did not re- cated, but was able to
member the event and properly care for himmade the report based self, and his safety was
Continued on page 9

the streets over the
winter.
BC Housing offers limited funding to
help cover the costs of
cold weather housing,
and they indicated they
would accept an application for funding from
Kitimat, even though
their yearly September 30 cut off date has
passed.
The $2,600 will
cover 40 hours of
work, that will produce a business and
operational plan for
an extreme weather
response program in
Kitimat for this winter, and a plan for put-

ting the program into
place.
A nightly budget
will also be prepared
for the proposed shelter.
The housing committee had prior to the
funding found a suitable candidate for this
job, and they will be
supported by a volunteer as well.
According to the
staff report no shelter
location had been identified, but it was later
learned that the old
UNBC site at Mountainview Square is where
the housing will be located.

The staff note that
further funding requests
may be made in the future for start-up costs if
no other funding group
comes forward.

explained a change to the C-5 zone,
which this bylaw is designed to do,
would affect every area in town
zoned C-5 already.
“Are we opening up service stations and liquor stores at all these
locations? Because if that’s the case
I would prefer some sort of spot zoning approach,” he said.
A C-5 zone does not expressly
allow a liquor store. Existing primary uses for C-5 zones includes a
Continued on page 12

Crossroads draft hotel bylaw
Kitimat Council gave first and
second reading to a draft bylaw that
would pave the way for The Crossroads, a proposed hotel, shopping
area and temporary worker housing
facility.
But the approval wasn’t given
carte-blanche, as many councillors
expressed concerns over the way
the bylaw could affect other areas of
town.
Mario Feldhoff first brought up
the concern, noting that staff’s report

Phil Germuth added at the discussion
that he hopes that the
province of B.C. steps
forward to kick in their
share.

Regional
briefs
Scott
Northwest
Corridor rep
Council has appointed
Corinne
Scott to be their representative on the
Northwest Corridor
Development Corporation.
The position
has the potential to
be either a director
position or advisory
member, depending
on the movement of
people on the board
now. An advisory
member would not
be a voting member.
The District of
Kitimat would be
responsible for all
travel costs to attend
board meetings, but
in 2014 that would
actually only mean
travel for two out
of four scheduled
meetings.

Hospital renos boost worker safety

And the newlyRod Link
formed Kitimat HospiThe
Northern
Health Authority is
tal Foundation is prospending more than
viding $10,000, the first
$800,000 to improve
significant donation by
safety and security for
the group.
its employees and paThe donation is
much appreciated by
tients at Kitimat GenNorthern Health, hoseral Hospital’s emergency room.
pital staff and the comBeing added is a
munity of Kitimat,”
separate room within
said Cooper.
the ER for patients,
Renovations
are
depending upon their
scheduled to be finished
specific situation, and
in mid-2014 and while
three work stations
they are underway, a
where nurses, doctors
mobile medical unit
and others can do pawill take over ER funcperwork.
tions in the hospital’s
Although the hosparking lot.
Built for use durpital is just 11 years Kitimat Hospital Foundation, Councilor Corrine Scott, Mayor Joanne Monaghan, Doug
old, the renovations Thomson, Margaret Sanou, Barbara Campbell and Phyllis Rooney, with Jonathan Cooper, ing the 2010 Vancouver
are to meet evolving NHA administrator, attend the open house.
Winter Olympics, the
guidelines for safety
unit was then bought
Also being added is a medica- by the provincial government.
“Health and safety guidelines
and security, says hospital adminisare always changing to mitigate tion and storage room in a location
The services it offers can be
trator Jonathan Cooper.
The separate room, called an risk,” said Cooper of the observation that’s now underutilized, Cooper adapted as needed and it’s been used
added. The $811,000 project is be- several times around the province
observation room, is meant for short room.
The three work stations aren’t ing financed 60 per cent by the during renovations of health care faterm assessments of people who
may, or may not, fall under the pro- meant as treatment areas but will Northern Health Authority and 40 cilities.
The unit went into service Nov.
visions of the Mental Health Act, he provide a quiet location containing per cent by the Northwest Regional
glazed glass, he said.
Hospital District.
16.
said.

Pipeline corridor proposed for northwestern B.C.
er impacts.
But Austin acknowledged that the
competitive
nature
of the LNG business
would make an energy
corridor difficult to organize.
Still, he said companies should realize
they’d save enormous
amounts of money
by cooperating where
possible on pipeline
routes.
“In
Australia
they’ve just finished
four separate pipeline
routes to projects adjacent to each other,”
said Austin.
“That’s jacked up
the costs tremendously
and I think now those
companies realize it
makes no sense. And
some of those companies are the same
as those with projects
here,” he said referring
to Chevron’s Kitimat
LNG project and Shell
Canada’s LNG project,
also at Kitimat.
While Austin favoured the idea of
companies cooperating on routes, he drew
the line on having the
province develop its
own corridor and then
making it available to
energy companies.

“I don’t want to
see any energy corridor
that would then allow
Enbridge to run a pipeline down it,” said Austin of the controversial
Northern
Gateway
pipeline which would
transport Alberta crude
to a marine export terminal at Kitimat.
The finance committee also recommended the province
continue to explore
revenue sharing with
northern governments
and that First Nations
be included.
“That really goes
without saying. It’s a
given. I think in this
day and age there is no
way First Nations can’t
be involved,” said Austin.
And he backs another finance committee recommendation
to spend money now
on northwestern infrastructure to ensure
communities are ready
for the impact of largescale industrialization.
“If you look at
communities in the
northeast and Fort
McMurray where industrial development
happens quickly, you’ll
see the impacts. Communities don’t have

the ability to cope after the fact,” said Austin. “Communities get
overwhelmed.”
Austin said that
was stressed in meetings he attended when
Terrace city council
met with provincial
cabinet ministers earlier this fall.
The legislative finance committee rec-

ommendations regarding LNG development
were released today,
marking the start of
the provincial government’s deliberations
leading up to next
spring when its 2014
budget will be set.
The
committee
spent five weeks traveling the province listening to presentations.

Its recommendations don’t have to
be adopted as budget
items but are considered by the province
in crafting its spending
and taxation plans.
And an LNG information session last
night in Terrace, hosted
by Skeena – Bulkley
Valley MP Nathan Cullen, saw industry and

energy stakeholders,
environmental groups,
and business representatives form a panel
that took audience
questions on LNG development in the area.
Several audience
members expressed interest in the idea of an
energy corridor in the
lead up to their questioning.

Kitimat Concert association
presents

Ken Lavigne:

The Road to Carnegie Hall
Thursday, November 21 at 8:00 pm

Since his Carnegie Hall Debut, tenor, Ken Lavigne has
regularly performed with multi-Grammy winner David
Foster and had the honour of performing for his Majesty
Prince Charles last fall. All the while he continues to
earn accolades with symphonies and orchestras
internationally.

upcoming
concerts

Skeena NDP MLA
Robin Austin backs the
idea of a common energy corridor for natural gas pipelines but
thinks advancing the
idea might be a bit early because no liquefied
natural gas projects in
the region have actually gotten off of the
ground.
“I think it makes
sense for energy companies as they develop
their route plans to
think about ways they
can work together so
as not to rip up more of
northern B.C. than necessary,” he said.
Austin’s comment
follows the release
today of a provincial
legislative committee
report which recommends the government
consider a common energy corridor.
That consideration
would be included in
a cumulative environmental assessment of
all LNG projects, said
the committee.
The prospect of
five or more pipelines
carrying natural gas to
LNG plants in Kitimat
and in Prince Rupert
has sparked discussion
about their combined
environmental and oth-

One flu over the
cuckoos nest
It was around the weekend of the Aluminum
City Telethon, or at least the days leading up to it,
when my flu was really at its worst.
It was the usual body aches, followed by coughing, and a spinning head that had low pain threshold
to sudden movements and deep thoughts.
I was convinced to call in sick for what worked
out to about a day and half, even though I really try to
avoid doing that. But when typing feels like running
a marathon it’s a good idea just to call it a day.
My reluctance to give in to a sick day, it turns
out, just makes things worse.
When I made time in my day to see a doctor to
ask about this lingering deep cough, turns out my flu
gave way to something a little more sinister, pneumonia.
Don’t worry, you can’t catch it from me by holding this newspaper, but I won’t fault you for holding
this out a little further away from you now.
It seemed like a cruel joke that in the midst of
my illness I suddenly see the releases from Northern
Health that the flu shot clinics are coming out.
If only my health could have held on I could
have gotten the shot and maybe avoided this whole
sickly mess.
Or, putting the ‘herd immunity’ argument into
play, if only other people had the chance to get immunized, perhaps I wouldn’t have caught it from
wherever this came from.
I won’t deny that I, like many, dislike needles
immensely.
With a one-year-old at home I’ll get one once
my health is back at 100 per cent, but I won’t do so
happily.
Last year when a public health nurse, giving my
son immunizations, asked if my wife and I would
like our flu shots, my wife jumped at the chance but
I held off. Not that I didn’t want it, but my argument
was you can’t just spring the idea of a needle on me
suddenly, I needed time to process.
I eventually went to Shoppers Drug Mart, maybe
two weeks later, and got it done.
It really didn’t hurt much, not that the quantity
of the pain really makes a difference when getting
a needle. Am I alone in thinking it’s psychological
more than anything?

Regardless, the shot is important. If a relatively healthy 29-year-old like me gets knocked
down for weeks at a time from the flu and other
complications, immunizations are clearly important.
I’ll do it for my 18-month-old, and for the elderly people in my life.
And yes, for me too.
But sometimes, it’s not only about me. Sometimes.
Cameron Orr

Is this a keyboard solution to rapid-change music technology?
I guess over the past few years
readers of this column have become
aware of what I think of the wonder of
YouTube on my PC.
Changing music technology has
frustrated numerous specific genre
music fans’ ability to collect their
favourite music throughout their lifetimes.
It was always hard to keep up with
the technology -- especially during the
high speed turnover of the 70s to the
90’s as the “systems” changed so rapidly.
More than 15 years ago, reluctantly, I tossed most of my old 78 rpm record collection on the municipal dump,
along with a giant batch of 8-track music cassettes I had collected over a period covering parts of the 70s and 80’s.
Subsequently, long-playing vinyl and
extended play discs joined their earlier
counterparts, although some selected
“hard to get” items, survived.
Today my garage, if searched carefully, will disgorge these, as it will
dozens of cassettes and CD versions
of “repeat-buy” and newer (a relative
term) song collections purchased to
“replace” valued versions of music on
technology no longer in use.
There’s also a couple of old VHS
video players and parts of a substantial
VHS movies collection, amassed when
that particular video playing technol-

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by Allan Hewitson
ahewitson@telus.net

ogy was the latest available.
I have been castigated severely in
recent years, for my impatience and
premature actions in disposing of “old
music favourites” by other “collector’s” (hoarders) of large music collections of who now crow that revered
well kept vinyl sounds the best, if you
are still an avid listener to gems from
your old music collections. As one
ages, these can stir memories of special
events or activities.
I know this to be a fact because last
summer, with so much beautiful weather, I often found myself outside playing
CD’s we used play at campsites, on the
road to hockey games or on the road on
vacation. More and more as this summer wore on, my wife would suggest I
use the “wireless” head phones as it appears she doesn’t seem to enjoy some
the old music the way she used to.
Not everything -- just some of the
“older” stuff that has stuck with me
and I like to listen to on occasion out
on the deck or while attending to the
garden. In fact she preferred me to car-

ry around my clip on MP3 player, with
its slip-in memory cards, where huge
chunks of the old music collection has
been transferred.
That brings me to where I came in.
It appears that there’s barely a single
musical item I have purchased over
the years, sometimes again and again,
as the technology changed and music
went from a scratchy breakable 78 rpm
records through its many formats to the
present day, that cannot be found on
my computers YouTube feature.
Just last night, I entered the name
of Jimmie Rodgers, (who was one of
my earliest influences, as the musicians
say, when I started listening to country
music, in Scotland in my teens in the
50s.)
Not only was the song there, it
was there in a live version, recorded on
film, converted to music video, albeit
in black and white, but in 1929 - 10
years before I was born and more than
20 years before I began looking for
Jimmie Rodgers songs in a speciality
music store in Glasgow.
I have rarely entered a song title,
or a singer or band, that didn’t pop up
immediately along with a selection of
other similar recordings.
I find I can often enter a movie title
the same way - and there it is. Not all
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Yes, folks, it’s
that time of year again
when we look at what
the next 12 months
hold for us weatherwise.
But first a shock
announcement: I have
benched the Old Farmer.
Now I know that
particular almanac has
only ever claimed 80
per cent accuracy, but
when it came to the
past Spring, Summer
and early Fall the aged
agrarian was so far off
the mark I decided to
give him a well earned
rest.
(A
confession
here: one reason I am
so ticked off at him
is that if I had known
what was in store I
would have built a new
bed and planted corn.)

So, who’s stepping
into his shoes?
I have selected
Harrowsmith’s version,
influenced to some degree by its claim to be
a “truly Canadian almanac” - I am nothing
if not patriotic.
Of course, this is
purely
probationary
and it will have to be up
to the mark to secure a
permanent place.
So, without further
ado, what does Harrowsmith say?
December: looks
like this is one of those
months where a difference of a couple
of degrees will dermine whether it’s wet
or white. For the first
half of the month wet
is more likely but the
second will see more
snow, heavy at times,

Reader’s Write

Dear Sir,
What a wonderful Christmas
Craft Fair at Riverlodge this year.
So many talented exhibitors,
delicious food and Christmas music throughout the building! Kudos
to the organizers to actually have
Christmas music! “Politically correct” stuff goes too far sometimes.
I’m sure most of you have read
the police report - online - for Oct.28
to Nov. 3.
Do you realize there were 67
calls to RCMP in only seven days
– ONE was to KMP camp when security called in someone “drinking,
yelling and causing a disturbance”.
The person was no longer permitted
in site, got to remove their belongings and stay with a friend, in town,
overnight and “likely on a plane
back home next day or so”.
Now if all the other “disturbances” due to drinking, causing a
disturbance, etc. could be put on a

especially in the last
few days.
So odds are good
for a white Christmas.
January: the thermometer dips and that
means snow the first
week, again heavy at
times. The precipitation eases going into
week two and we can
look forward to mainly dry weather. It will
warm up a bit in week
three with rain or snow
before cooling off towards the end of the
month but with only a
bit of snow.
February: cold but
mainly clear to begin
with, weather to delight
cross-country skiers.
And the sun continues
into week two, but grey
days return towards
mid-month resulting
in a snowy week three
and a warm and wet finale.
March: warms up
with showers or flurries for the first couple
of weeks but winter
will have one last kick
in week three with a
mix of heavy rain and

plane and sent back to where ever
they came from we might have a
nice quiet town.
What do you think? Bet RCMP
and neighbours of the unruley people would think that was a good idea.
Remember in the “old days”
when people were tarred and feathered and run out of town? Maybe we
should run the town like the camps
are run!
Anyway, just some thoughts
from Red Neck Roma.
Now that we have all removed
our flowers, tied up our shrubs and
the days are grey and wet, all I can
say is a couple of inches of the
white stuff might brighten things up.
Please note I said a couple of inches
not feet!
Start the baking, cleaning, decorating as the jolly man in red will be
there before you know it - then we
can start thinking about spring again.
Keep smiling.
I’m watching and listening,
Sincerely,
Roma Burnett

Which leaves just
heavy snow. And it will but hot weather hits in skies and rain/snow to
be a mix of wet and week two. And the rest round out our 12 month one question: do I plant
corn next year?
white to close out the of the month is warm look-ahead.
and sunny with occamonth.
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sun and rain continues
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Muchwinning
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Lights, Ballasts and Tubes, Smoke and Carbon Monoxide
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the sun starts
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fresheners,
wallpaper,
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winds carpeting
down.
traditionally
the timepaint,
Trading Post
or home
decorating
Fall items.
arrives for final
for gardeners
to swing
Love a treasure hunt?
into high gear and the week although we
Then check out our Trading Post,
After a long winter, spring is a great time
an area for exchange of materials by swap or donation.
ritual of the first camp- might still see some
to let the fresh air in and the dirty air out.
Check often, selection varies.
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Skilled trades program
brings students career
Cameron Orr
To
coincide
with
Skilled Trades and Technology Week, the Industry
Training Authority (ITA)
launched a youth mentorship pilot program.
The Kitimat and Terrace area are one of just
three regions receiving
this program in its pilot
phase, which seeks to connect high school students
who are already in trades
programs, such as ACE-IT
(Accelerated Credit Enrolment in Industry Training)
or the Secondary School
Apprenticeship program, to
journeypersons in the trades
field.
“The purpose of it is to
help mentor them and keep
them guided in the early
part of their journey with
any questions they may
have,” said Gary Herman,
interim CEO of ITA.
“It gives them that
guidance of insight and
wisdom and knowledge
that the journeyperson
would have.”
Herman said this program is set to run until
May and students involved,
which also includes recently graduated high school
students, will meet with
their mentors for about
30 minutes each week for
guidance.

“There’s lots of activity
going on in the north…and
there’s going to be a high
demand for skilled trades
in the north and we thought
this would be a very good
place to start the pilot,” explained Herman.
In May they will evaluate the program and decide
how to roll it out for the rest
of the province.
Herman said it’s a great
time to be looking at the
trades as a career.
“There’s never been a
better time in British Columbia for young people to
be considering a career in
the trades,” said Herman.
“We’re not just talking
about jobs here, we’re talking about careers.”
Employers or potential
mentors are also welcome
to submit an application for
the program.
The program locally
will be run by the Coast
Mountains School District,
or people can go to ITA’s
website at www.itabc.ca/
mentorship to get their
name into the mix.
The mentorship project
is anticipating connecting
50 students to mentors.
The other regions receiving this program for
the pilot phase in BC is the
north Okanagan and Vancouver.

Retiree Site Tour
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
BC Operations would like to invite our retirees on a
tour of the Kitimat Modernization Project.

Photos Sarah Campbell

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Reach those in Kitimat and Kitamaat
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Music technology
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right rules keep many titles from
being available -- but as a 50s, 60s
70s and beyond, fan of western
movies, it’s like an almost unlimited extension of the Turner
Movie Classics station on cable
and satellite TV. Now, I find I often go to bed very late (or early in

the morning) catching up on older
(and some much, much newer)
movies I have missed along the
way.
The amazing thing to me is
that YouTube.com, as an entitity,
came on the scene only in 2005
and within a very short time was
crediting itself with a billion

“hits” or views a day. This must
have escalated to the multi-billions daily with millions of people
round the world uploading their
own videos daily.
It has also become an unlimited source of “do it yourself” information providing answers on
video to diy-ers questions. Just

got all the answers to how to replace a leaking stainless steel sink
basket.
“Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC
and other organizations offer
some of their material via the site,

as part of a YouTube partnership
program,”according to wikipedia..
Remember I said it was founded in 2005? YouTube, LLC was
bought by Google for US$1.65
billion in November 2006 and
now operates as a Google subsidiary. Yes, thats billion, with a ‘b’.

Police Beat
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no longer a concern.
On-duty ER nurse was
extremely upset with
this decision and members explained liability
issues of lodging a person with no grounds.
Nov. 8 - Kitimat RCMP
received a request for
assistance from Terrace MFCD regarding
a possible child assault
case.
Nov. 9 - Kitimat
RCMP were called by
an employee at Mountainview Lodge Care
Facility and advised
that a resident had
left the facility in her
wheel chair and it was
thought that she may
have went to the mall.
A member attended
the mall and located
the resident who was
speaking with some
people at the food area
in the lower level.
Nov. 10 - A complainant called police
to report that there
were 2 youths throwing cardboard at vehicles on Haisla hill. The
youths both appeared
to be between the ages
of 12-14. Member attended scene and did
not see anyone in the
area but did see some
cardboard on the road.
Member was advised
that one of the youths
was wearing a pink wig
and had actually kicked
a box from the shoulder
of the road into traffic
where it was struck by
the vehicle in front of
him. Patrols made of
the area were negative
for suspects.

Your complete guide to your animal shelter
Kitimat’s Humane Society, a non-profit organization, does a bit more than their
mandate with the District of Kitimat.
The Sentinel sought out an overview
of how the Kitimat animal shelter operates,
after receiving occasional phone calls from
people who were frustrated by their experiences either in attempting to adopt an animal or with trying to get animal control out
in the community.
The contract:
The Kitimat Community Humane Society is the service provider of the District
of Kitimat’s animal control contract. That
contract provides the Society’s only firm
source of revenue.
The current contract is due for renegotiation and the new one could be adopted
by the end of the year.
Under their agreement with the town,
they receive $6,115 a month, plus $2.25 for
each dog licence sold which is given as a
grant-in-aid towards a spay and neuter program. The Society also receives $6.20 for
each day a dog is impounded, up to three
days or more if directed by the District of
Kitimat.
Shelter manager Maryann Ouellet said
that dog licences give them about $1,200 a
year. The contract with the District essentially only covers animal impoundments,

One of the animal shelter’s more
permanent fixtures, Chief.
for example dangerous dogs or nuisance
animals, as well as provides for patrols
through the community. The patrols, as per
the terms of the contract, should take up 30
hours a week. Ouellet is hopeful that they
may see a boost to their contract in the future. She said over eight years the contract
has only gone up $100 per year.
The change to minimum wage in B.C.
in particular has been challenging for the
Society.
“It really affected us financially when
the minimum wage went up,” she said.
“These guys deserve to be paid more than
the minimum wage.”
Ouellet is the only full-time staff mem-

ber at the shelter, but she has two part-time
employees as well.
“We try to fundraise, a lot of us are donating or volunteering our time on top of it
all,” she added.
The society does also offer, through
the contract, after-hours availability if they
need to handle an animal call.
While the contract has provisions for
cats, for example the number a person may
have in their home at once, the animal control regulation for the town is slanted heavily towards regulation of dogs, and are the
only pet which need a licence.
The adoption process:
Ouellet is by the books when it comes
to adopting out any of their animals.
“It’s quite extensive, asking for references, [and] we like to try to do home inspections,” she said.
She said any of the shelter employees
can do home inspections but on occasion
they might not feel comfortable in that task
and it falls to her to carry them out. But potential adopters need to have a lot of ducks
in a row before their application will go
anywhere.
“Before an application will even be
looked at we require all the documentation
requested in the application,” she said.
Documentation needed may include

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written permission from a person’s landlord that pets are allowed in their home.
She said a verbal promise won’t cut it
because there’s always the potential people
are wrong on their permission and the animal ends up back at the shelter or somewhere else.
“We still need verification from the
landlord so we can talk to him,” she said.
“We want to know they’re forever homes...
and people can afford them.”
She said people on fixed incomes have
come in with detailed finance plans on how
they will care for their animal. The home
inspections themselves usually will be carried out, unless the person seeking an adoption has done so before through the shelter
and so are known to employees.
“If we have someone that’s not already
in our system, we will do home inspections.”
The adoption rate, she said, is high, and
rescue societies in other parts of the province also monitor the animals they have.
In September this year she said 12 dogs
were adopted.
The shelter is also boarding some animals, mostly with the pets of camp workers. But people in town at the camp are also
responsible for a number of donations.
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She said people will come to walk animals,
and end up adopting an animal themselves.
Adoptions cost $250, which covers the expense of spaying or neutering, and vaccinations
and deworming.
“We’re still losing a little bit but at least
we can make sure this is all happening, so it’s
a one-time cost,” said Ouellet. “If people had
to go out and spay or neuter their animal themselves they’d be spending a heck of a lot more.”
Agreements on reserves:
Through the society’s own agreements,
they will take animals from reserve communities in the area, but that service comes with its
own caveats.
“With the reserves, there used to be always
a clean up....nothing was done for a long-term
solution,” she said.
“It’s taken me a long time to get them on
board with it that it’s not a matter of cleaning
up your problem in your community, it’s you
have to show me what you’re going to do to
make changes to address the situation.”
So communities which show they have active animal control and welfare regulations can
have their animals picked up.
She said Kitamaat Village has adopted the
District of Kitimat’s animal regulations. Other
communities have agreements with the shelter,
including Canyon City, New Aiyansh, Greenvile and Gingolx.
The society will collect fines on behalf of

the communities, and boarding costs and license fees go to the society.
The society itself, and Christmas:
The Kitimat Community Humane Society’s foundation is a board of five directors
which Ouellet answers to.
“They basically oversee the operations of
this shelter, helping fundraising, setting policies and procedures, and helping me basically.”
They’re a non-profit society, which helps
them potentially get government funding and
grants.
Their non-profit status helps them connect
with animal rescues as well, she adds.
And with the Christmas season nearly
upon us, we had to also ask where the shelter
stands on gift adoptions.
“If somebody wants a pet in the house we
want to know that the whole family is on board
with it. And if you’re going to get it for your
child, well it’s not going to be approved,” she
said.
That’s because she says sometimes families will adopt an animal for a kid, but then the
child may lose interest in caring for the animal
over time.
“A lot of parents think they’re teaching
their kids responsibility, then the animal gets
neglected and the parents don’t want the animal,” she said.
So in short, the whole regular process takes
place before an adoption happens, whether it’s
for a gift or not.

All-season tires are not always all
encompassing on highways
Tom Fletcher
Some “all season” tires are good
enough for winter roads in B.C., but
not all of them.
That’s one reason why Transportation Minister Todd Stone has added
the topic of tires to a provincial review of highway safety that includes
speed limits.
“It’s been almost 40 years since
the current definition of a winter tire
was actually changed, and tire technology has advanced dramatically,
particularly over the last five to 10
years,” Stone said Tuesday.
With the popularity of all-season
tires and all-wheel-drive vehicles,
Stone said there is some confusion
about what is acceptable for requirements that took effect Oct. 1 on routes
that have winter conditions. Those
routes have signs advising drivers to
use winter tires or carry chains, and
police may turn drivers away if they
are not properly equipped.
True winter tires have a symbol
of a mountain and snowflake on the
sidewall. All-season tires with the
“M+S” mark to indicate traction in
mud and snow are also permissible,

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From the
Legislature
Tom Fletcher

but all tires must have a minimum
tread depth of 3.5 mm.
A quick test can be done using
a dime. Point Her Majesty’s head
downward and insert the dime in the
tire tread. If the top of the head remains visible, the tire is too worn to
qualify for winter conditions.
Drivers have a choice of investing in new tires or buying a set of
chains.
The transportation ministry has a
website at www.th.gov.bc.ca/SeasonalDriving/winter_chains.html
that
includes maps of routes affected by
winter restrictions, and tips on how to
use tire chains.
Stone said that with 60 per cent of
B.C. residents living in areas where
winter conditions are not common,
he is not considering making winter
tires mandatory for all vehicles.

Time to think about Hampers
Christmas 2013 is
fast approaching and
the Kitimat Christmas
Hamper Appeal is once
again underway.
In 2012 the citizens of Kitimat, Kitamaat Village and some
Terrace
businesses
generously
donated
$39,894.51 enabling us
to fill over 200 Christmas hampers and to
continue assisting the
less fortunate in Kitimat and Kitamaat Village throughout the
year. We also received
numerous boxes of
food, gifts and toys
thanks to you all.
The
Christmas
Hamper Appeal is under the auspices of the
Kitimat Food Bank Society. Our organization
is run strictly by volunteers and the majority of the donations are
used for the needy with
a small portion going

for operating expenses.
We are the only organization
distributing
Christmas hampers in
Kitimat and Kitamaat
Village.
Christmas hampers
include a voucher (for
a turkey, ham or other)
along with the trimmings for a Christmas
dinner.
Schoolchildren, churches and other community groups
donate a significant
amount of the food.
New toys are included for children
12 and under. We like
to include gifts for all
teens and adults and
appreciate
receiving
gift certificates for music downloads, books/
magazines,
video
rentals, swim/skating
passes, phone cards,
toiletries, flowers, restaurants, or other gifts
suitable for teens,
women and men.

Gift
certificates
from local merchants
are a wonderful idea as
this enables recipients
to purchase something
they would enjoy as
well as supporting the
local economy. We do
not give clothing as
gifts, apart from mitts,
gloves, toques etc. as
sizing is a problem.
We would appreciate receiving unwrapped gifts as we
have a Gift/Toy Committee who wrap and
mark gifts. This makes
it easier for us to know
how many gifts we have
for each age group.
This year hampers
will be delivered on
Saturday, Dec. 14 beginning at 10:00 a.m.
We would appreciate
receiving donations of
food and gifts by Dec.
9 so they can be sorted,
wrapped and packed
prior to delivery.

Hamper requests
must be completed
and dropped off at the
Salvation Army Thrift
Shop or the Food Bank
(through mail slot if
Food Bank is closed)
by Friday, Dec. 7.
Phone
requests
are not accepted and
late forms will go on
a waiting list. Hamper
request forms can be
picked up at the Food
Bank, Social Services
Office or the Salvation
Army Thrift Shop.
Envision Financial
will once again set up
a tree in their office
and donations of cash,
gifts and non-perishable food items may
be dropped off there
during regular business
hours.
As we are obligated to follow the Food
Safe Rules for B.C.
we are not allowed to
accept home canned

NHA tackles aging communities
Cameron Orr
How to age healthy and in home was a topic
of discussion during a healthy aging consultation
hosted by Northern Health recently.
Northern Health had undertaken a tour
through their whole health authority region to
gauge what people sense is important as they
grow ever wiser.
“If we’re not looking after preventative
health…then obviously people are going to need
more services,” said Kitimat General Hospital
Health Services Administrator Jonathan Cooper,
on one of the issues that took focus over the meeting, held at the Kitimat Snowflake Seniors Centre.
But preventative health is just one facet of the
information they sought out.
Being able to live in your home as long as possible was another priority named by the attendees,
and having appropriate housing available.

“We all have a role in establishing how to be
healthy,” he said, noting that Northern Health is
working with other groups, including locally the
District of Kitimat, in figuring out how to support
healthy living and aging.
At the meeting everyone put their ideas onto
sticky notes and those notes will be processed into
a document that Northern Health will share with
their board.
The eventual outcome, said Cooper, will be
that it helps influence future decision making. The
reports will also eventually be made available on
Northern Health’s website, probably in January
sometime.
‘Healthy aging and seniors’ wellness is a
shared community concern and we want to ensure
people have a voice in how we address it,” said
Dr. Charles Jago, Northern Health Board Chair,
through a Northern Health press release.

fruit, vegetables, fish,
etc. Cheques may
also be dropped off at
Wings Travel during
their business hours
or mailed to Box 20,
V8C 2G6. Receipts
are issued for donations of $10 or more
for income tax purposes.
If you wish further
information
please
call 632-6611, leave a
message and someone
will contact you.
Thank you all for
your ongoing support
- we could not continue to function without
your generosity.
Marjorie Phelps &
Pearl Lennox,
Co-chairs Christmas
Hamper Appeal

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when a company’s employees aren’t engaged with their
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carwash, drive-in restaurant, motel, recreation facility, retail,
restaurant and tourist
information. The proposed additions would
add hotel and service
station to the language.
The
proposal
would also increase
the maximum height
of buildings to 18 metres from the current
nine.
He noted other
C-5 areas include the
area around Rosarios
and Kitimat Lodge.
Edwin Empinado
and Phil Germuth also
shared in those concerns and expressed

desire to see only the
one area, between Forest Avenue and Kitamaat Village Road,
changed.
District of Kitimat
planner Daniel Martin
said a potential option
could be to create a
new zone, for example
a C-11, which would

apply only to this one
area.
Meanwhile a public hearing on this draft
bylaw is set for November 25 at the regular council meeting.
The
application
for this development
comes from proponent
Bryton Group, and the

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Nechako Centre had
nurtured early town
It was Nechako Centre, and adjacent area,
that nurtured our infant town.
It seemed to house everything - the Post Office, the first in-town school and a full selection
of shops.
Nechako Centre began operating in late 1954,
a full three years ahead of the City Centre Mall.
While awaiting the completion of Nechako Elementary, classes were held in the basement of the
centre, which later became part of Coghlin Hardware. By 1956 Nechako Centre was thriving. It
included SuperValu, Kitimat
Pharmacy, the post office, Stone’s Menswear,
Iona’s Dress Shoppe, Baly’s Shoe Store, Northern
Radio and Record Sales, Spicer’s Florist, a bakery, Brenton Barbers, The Beauty Nook, Baxter’s
Toys and Gifts and, of course, there was Coghlin Hardware which really had everything. The
staff used to say, “We’ve got it if we can find it.
And if we don’t have it you don’t need it.” On the
top floor of the centre were doctors and dentists
- many old-timers will recall
Dr. Zolco and Drs. Duncan
and Dundee. Nechako Theatre opened in about 1956.
Chris Knight recalls the first
feature presentation which
he says was The Eddie Duchin Story.
In those days Nechako Theatre was a swell
place. The shopping at Nechako and the new
downtown anchor store, the Hudson Bay, attracted
customers from afar. After the highway to Terrace
opened the stream of incoming shoppers was legendary. Kitimat was the place to be and to shop.
And of course you could always take in a
movie while in town.
Adjacent to the centre, on its eastern flank,
was the Kitimat Library which had attached
public washrooms, open year-round. There were
also tennis courts, well-used all year as Kitimat’s
youth were treated to winter skating and hockey
compliments of the firefighters who flooded the
courts during cold snaps.
Kitimat’s young folk were also wary, as within sight of the centre was the ubiquitous green
air raid/emergency siren. We wonder whether it
always sounded at 7 pm and was it truly a curfew? Within the greenbelt space next to the tennis
courts was Nechako School, the first permanent
place of learning completed in town. Stretching
beyond the school grounds were the Little League
and Pony League baseball fields, and of course
Pintail Park.
At Nechako Centre many sidewalks converged on the hub and there was an impressive
underpass beneath Kingfisher to the western
green belt where two of Kitimat’s first churches
had been constructed.
The United Church was actually first, ready
for their congregation in 1957. At that point the
Anglicans were meeting in the neighbourhood
hall which they eventually adopted and remodelled into the present day Anglican Church. That
hall had previously been used for everything including dances, Scouts, Brownies, etc. Lois Godfrey (Richards) can clearly remember the good
times associated with that multi-use facility.
Some folk, like Ruth Brady (Stockman), recall the narrow wooden sidewalks first constructed prior to the permanent sidewalk network. They
felt that everyone was forever wearing rubber
gum boots and recall the wild reputation of Pintail Park. It was good that parents didn’t know the
half of it.

Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 13

It’s Our

Heritage
Walter thorne

Immediately beside Nechako Centre to the
south is Oriole Street, the scene of the heated
‘Kitimat House Wars’.
As one of the first streets, it emerged as a
show case in which the competing Skyliner, Hullah, and Johnson-Crooks companies displayed
their prototype homes. Many Kitimat folk actually went to Oriole to decide on the house they
wanted on their lot.
Some youth from that era, including Bud
Powell, can still recall the radio jingles persuading residents to live in their perfect homes. At the time Panabode was also in the house sales
competition. Eventually, there
were sales of about 24 Panabodes, 80 Hullah single storey,
post and beam homes and an
unknown but sizeable number
of Skyliners, following the California design. The
winner in the House Wars was Johnson- Crooks
with more than 250 constructed in Kitimat - Widgeon Street was entirely Johnson-Crooks homes.
One of the home designs featured an aluminum roof, some of which still remain in use today
(2013).
At the intersection of Kingfisher and Haisla
another critical component of Kitimat and a key
part of Nechako neighbourhood were the BC
Telephone and the Public Safety Buildings.
At the telephone exchange student operators
like Jackie Worboys (Mufford) earned good wages. What they were inadvertently privy to would
have been considerable. The privacy of today’s
telephone technology is certainly an improvement.
Across the street, the Public Safety Building
was much more than it is today. Commencing in
1956, the building housed council chambers, a
court and magistrate, firehall, a full weather station and police barracks with jail - yes, you can
still see the iron bars on the cell windows.
In the beginning Nechako was where many of
the town’s big-shots built homes. Kitimat’s first
mayor, Reeve Hallman, lived at 8 Pintail and fire
chief Aubrey Creed lived at the corner of Haisla
and Ptarmigan. Across the street from Creed lived
businessman Art Coghlin.
The Alcan staff apartments close by, with
their wonderful channel view, were considered
top of the line. Partridge Street was prominently
featured in the September, 1956 edition of National Geographic Magazine. The article, Kitimat: Canada’s aluminum titan, created an utopian
picture, showing neighbours out in the communal
green space, playing, gardening and working together. In the picture you see no fences and no
towering trees and hedges. It was just all common
space. Life in Nechako could be idyllic, couldn’t
it? Nechako Centre also hosted the start of all Dominion Day parades on July 1st.
Much has changed in the intervening years,
but in its day Nechako was the heart of Kitimat.
And nearly 60 years later still holds a place in
the hearts of our oldtimers.

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Sports & Leisure

16 Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, November 20. 2013

Ice Demons charge back
Submitted
The Kitimat Ice Demons and the Smithers
Steelheads were each short
of half a dozen regular familiar core names - for the
Demons, (Jeff Mildenberger, Blaine Markwart, Wade
Masch, Derrick DeLisser,
Jeremy Brady, Jordan Goncalves, Nick Markowsky)
and for the Steelheads,
(Ian and Eric Smith, Darryl Young, Ryan DeVries,
Spencer Brooks) but the
two teams staged an entertaining and very gritty game
that finally saw the Ice Demons come from two goals
behind to win 3-2 in the
third period, with a scrappy, but determined effort.
Despite a sloppy game
at both ends of the ice 850
rabid fans enjoyed the
game.
For the Smithers travel-

ling contingent, former Hazelton Wolverines’ stalwart,
Amadee Marshall, filled in
well for Steelheads’ missing a scoring punch, notching a power play goal only
two minutes 38 seconds
into the first period (from
Adam DeVries).
Marshall also put the
Smithers team two up, just
at the end of another power
play, early in the second
period (assists to Josh Aspenlind, Adam DeVries) to
give the Steelheads a comfortable lead in a game they
largely controlled, while the
Demons tried to get a young
lineup to play to the plan.
Tommy Mildenberger
had an excellent game in
the Kitimat net, stopping 31
of 33 total shots, many of
them in the difficult class,
while giving the Ice Demons time to get its game

better co-ordinated going
into the third period.
But with just four minutes left in the second period, the Ice Demons finally
got on to the score sheet,
with Terry Whelan tipping
an ice-level rocket from Josh
Slanina behind Tyler Perreault in the Smithers’ net.
Kitimat then got a
power play goal of its own,
with 11 minutes gone in the
third period to tie the game
- scored by Josh Slanina,
(from Kyle Madsen) with a
high drive that beat Perrault
to the top right corner.
The Ice Demons rallied
with a good effort to valiantly fight off the Smithers’ offence throughout the
double extended penalties
with sticks, legs and skates
sacrificed to prevent shots
reaching the net.
Fortified by their hard

work and success on the
penalty kill, Josh Slanina
struck again (from Chris
Vilness) for his second
goal and third point of
the game, to give Kitimat
an unlikely lead, with just

2.45 remaining.
Smithers pulled out
all the stops, including its
goaltender but the Demons
were able to hang on to
their lead.
Earlier in Saturday,

Kitimat learned it had been
successful in appealing to
the league to reverse a two
point forfeit for playing an
ineligible player in the Nov.
2 3-2 win over the Prince
Rupert Rampage.

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LNG Canada is proposing to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Kitimat, B.C. As required by
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About the Project. LNG Canada, a joint venture between Shell Canada Ltd., Korea Gas
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